You can listen to and watch Mike Doughty from yesterday’s in-studio at 89.3 The Current.

Before coming into the office this morning, I cuddled up with Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy. It’s a memoir of Kennedy’s year or so spent working as a marketing wonk for Atlantic Records.
I had just gotten to the part where Kennedy was getting laid off (I’m not ruining the plot by [...]

What is the name of space between scrotum and anus?
Taint
pretty little don’t do what it used to lyrics looking like a train wreck
Save it For a Rainy Day by The Jayhawks
who sings damn i wish i was your lover?
Sophie B. Hawkins
have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and thought damn i’m hot!?
No.
is bret [...]

Why yes, I did stay up until midnight so I could purchase Golden Delicious (only $6.99 for the download on Amazon). I guess that’s just what we fan girls do. We make sacrifices for the rockers and the rollers in our lives (even if it is our fantasy lives).
And you can just shove it [...]

Sterogum has a nice video of Doughty and Scrap playing a stripped down version of “I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress to Keep on Dancing.”

The first two stories in Neil Smith’s short story collection Bang Crunch were so punch-in-the-gut good that it caused me a bit of anxiety. Could he keep up this stellar pace? What if he does? What if the entire collection is this good? Will my heart be able to take it?
The first story “Isolettes” about [...]

Sometimes when I watch Rock of Love I get so giddy and joyful that I squirm in my chair and cackle. I realize that I should feel guilty for taking so much pleasure from something so patently offensive and awful and yet I don’t.

So I got a mention in Kathleen Turner’s memoir Send Yourself Roses. It is by far the weirdest, most random thing to happen to me up to this point.
This morning I got a lovely e-mail from a gentleman named Don who said this:
I’m one of the early reviewers for Kathleen Turner’s new book, Send Yourself [...]

Mad props have to go out to Sister #2 who has been accepted to the Ph.D program she wanted to get into. They only accept six to seven people and she’s one of them.

Mom’s on her way home. Her heart’s good and they’re pretty sure it was the pancreas thing caused by the fact that she doesn’t have a gall bladder that made her sick. It’s good to hear.

When I went to bed last night I made a decision not to set my alarm. I haven’t been sleeping well and thought it would be good for me to sleep until I woke up.
I use my cellphone as an alarm so when I made the decision not to set the alarm I didn’t [...]

Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday of all time aside from my birthday which the US Government and Hallmark refuse to acknowledge as a national holiday. I refuse to argue about Valentine’s Day anymore. I love it and if you don’t that’s fine. I won’t waste my time trying to defrost your bitter, cold, shriveled [...]

As a seasoned Web surfer, I have generally learned to tune out most all the ads I see. Something has to be pretty spectacular for it to catch my eye. Hell, I spend a lot of time creating some of those damn Web ads that block up the scenery.
Do you see why the ad [...]

First of all, I have to say, I got spanked today for spending most of my free time reading books when I should be looking for a job. And I’m more than a little pissed that the book I’ve spent all my time reading lately turned out to be completely underwhelming.
Before October, I’d never read [...]

How my mom voted for Jerry Brown in the Wisconsin primary back in 2000
If Tim Russert’s makeup artist is given actual creative direction to make him look disheveled
Whether Leinie’s Red is the superior Leinie’s (it’s not)
Lloyd Bentson and James Stockdale
Pete Meyers and how he made me fall in love with him by using the word [...]